Cheers Claus. The ant exclusions sound like a good idea. Let me take a look at what that would involve.
thx for your help, ste Claus Ibsen-2 wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:42 PM, sgargan<sgar...@qualcomm.com> wrote: >> >> In the 1.6 codeline it was possible to define routebuilders as beans in a >> Spring context and have them wired into the camel context upon >> intialization >> e.g. >> >> <bean id="simpleHttpRoute" class="org.simple.SimpleHttpToFileRoute" /> >> >> This bean would have been added to the context when the following block >> of >> code in in the installRoutes method of the CamelContextFactoryBean was >> executed >> >> protected void installRoutes() throws Exception { >> if (autowireRouteBuilders != null && >> autowireRouteBuilders.booleanValue()) { >> Map builders = >> getApplicationContext().getBeansOfType(RouteBuilder.class, true, true); >> if (builders != null) { >> for (Object builder : builders.values()) { >> getContext().addRoutes((RouteBuilder) builder); >> } >> } >> } >> >> In the 2.0 codeline, this section has been removed (as part of a fix for >> the >> following issue/feature http://bit.ly/n6ojs ) and the context defined >> routes >> do not get added. I was wondering what the reason was for dropping this? >> Was >> it considered harmful? > You can use the <routeBuilder ref="simpleHttpRoute"/> in <camelContext>. > > Yes it was considered to magical. What if you have 2 camel contextes > then they would both > load up all the route builders they could find as spring beans. > > And for users coming in to maintain the code would not be able to figure > out > how the routes are kick started. > > Yet alone the <package> could be a bit difficult to understand. > That reminds me, maybe if it was named package-scan it would be easier > to hint that. > > >> >> I know the package scan can be used to initialise RouteBuilders it finds >> in >> packages, but it can be annoying to exclude routes from this mechanism, >> for >> instance where you have test RouteBuilders that happen to live in the >> same >> package in the test src tree, or where there are routes that complicate >> testing with setup and noise. Also in situations where you configure the >> RouteBean explicitly e.g. to inject values from properties files, it is >> much >> cleaner to define the routes as beans. > > I have been wondering if we should add ANT files matcher here as well, > so you can > specify includes/excludes as well. > >> >> Short of adding my own CamelContextAwareBean to do the same, Is there a >> different mechanism to do setup Routes this way? > Yes the <routeBuilder ref> tag. > > >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Stephen. >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Autowiring-RouteBuilders-defined-as-beans-in-Spring.-tp23970613p23970613.html >> Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> > > > > -- > Claus Ibsen > Apache Camel Committer > > Open Source Integration: http://fusesource.com > Blog: http://davsclaus.blogspot.com/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/davsclaus > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Autowiring-RouteBuilders-defined-as-beans-in-Spring.-tp23970613p23987836.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.